sp. nov., an α-amylase/pullulanase-producing bacterium isolated from cassava wastewater Free

Abstract

A novel α-amylase/pullulanase-producing bacterium, designated strain GST4, was isolated from samples collected from the wastewater of a cassava starch factory in Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, southern China. Cells of strain GST4 were rod-shaped bacilli containing ellipsoidal terminal spores and found to be Gram-reaction-positive, aerobic, motile, oxidase-positive, catalase-negative and formed light yellow colonies on agar plates. Strain GST4 was able to grow at pH 4.5–8.5 (optimum at pH 5.5), temperatures ranging from 20 to 42 °C (optimum at 37 °C) and salt concentrations of 0–1 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum at 0.5 %, w/v) on R2A medium. Strain GST4 grew heterotrophically on complex carbon substrates and chemolithoautotrophically on inorganic sulfur compounds, as demonstrated by growth on sodium thiosulfate and sulfite as sole electron donors. It can reduce nitrate and nitrite. Strain GST4 contained iso-C and anteiso-C as the major cellular fatty acids and menaquinone 7 (MK-7) as the major respiratory quinone. The cell-wall peptidoglycan was of type A1γ. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain GST4 was 53.7 mol%. Physiological and chemotaxonomic characteristics combined with phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain GST4 was a member of the genus and most closely related to DSM 18773 and DSM 18389 with 97.3 and 94.5 % sequence similarity, respectively. The DNA–DNA relatedness values between strain GST4 and DSM 18773, and strain GST4 and DSM 18389 were 44.0 and 60.4 %, respectively. The new isolate differed from those species of the genus in that it has peritrichous flagella for motility. Based on the evidence obtained from this study, strain GST4 represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GST4 ( = CGMCC 1.12170 = DSM 25748).

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award 31160023)
  • Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (Award 2012GXNSFBA053063, 2010GXNSFF013003 and 2010GXNSFD013030)
  • Guangxi Science and Technology Development Project (Award 12118004-3, 12118004-4 and 11107008-4)
  • Guangxi Academy of Sciences (Award 12YJ25SW01)
  • Guangxi Special Fund of Academic and Technical Leaders Training Project in New Century
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